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Paris sped down in 1:54.63 to clinch his seventh Bormio victory
overall, including one in super G, laying down a marker with
little over a month to go until the Beijing Winter Olympics
start on Feb. 4.
The victory came nine years on from the 32-year-old's first
triumph on the Stelvio, which will host all the men’s alpine ski
races at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Overall World Cup points leader Marco Odermatt of Switzerland
was 0.24 seconds off the pace as the giant slalom specialist
took a surprise second, the first downhill podium finish of the
24-year-old’s career.
Swiss Niels Hintermann finished third, 0.80 seconds behind
Paris, to claim his second successive podium finish after
achieving the same result in Val Gardena 10 days ago.
Austria’s Matthias Mayer, one of the pre-race favourites, could
only finish 12th and defending downhill champion Beat Feuz of
Switzerland crashed out but was unhurt.
Paris moved up three places to the top of the downhill World Cup
standings with 227 points, as Mayer dropped to second place on
217.
Hintermann (178 points) also climbed three places, moving into
third ahead of Norway’s Aleksander Aamody Kilde (169), who
finished sixth in Bormio.
There was no change at the top of the overall World Cup
standing, with Odermatt leading on 713 points, 286 clear of
Mayer in second and 344 ahead of Kilde.
Racing continues at Bormio on Dec. 29 and 30, with two days of
super G competition.
(Reporting by Alasdair Mackenzie, editing by Ed Osmond)
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